Emre Can Quotes

People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. He has had a superb career.

I love Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's amazing, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for Oscars, and she's just a big role model to me. I love her.

I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.

It is an honour that people are comparing me to Iniesta because of everything that he has achieved. But, and I have said this before, I do not like these kinds of comparisons. Andres is Andres, and I am Isco. I am a different person and player.

I wouldn't dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

Better than Zidane? That is impossible! It is always good for us to hear things like that, but we have to be real. I know where I am.

It's really incredible to be compared to a player like 'King Pele' who is the King of Football. But what I must think about is working hard and following my own pathway and not thinking about people who compare you to other players.

I can only repeat, I would never compare myself to Gerd Muller.

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

I'm being called 'Messi with gloves?' I think he's had a great level over many years. You shouldn't compare yourself with that.

When you are next to Harry Kane, achieving all he is and scoring so many goals, it's normal that the focus is on Harry Kane.

I model myself on Christie Rampone and look up to her. Obviously, achieving what she's achieved would be magnificent. I'd really like to meet her just once.

I'm honored to be compared to some great running backs, but I try to block that out and be myself.

I'm not a Maradona, and it's not my intention to become one.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.